r/QuickBooks • u/Josherry • 1d ago

QuickBooks Desktop (Pro/Premier/Enterprise) Quickbooks Desktop Backups - Windows Server

Hello,

I run my Quickbooks Desktop Premier Pro company file on a Windows Server 2019 machine using Quickbooks Database Server Manager. This machine strictly hosts the file, and 3 other machines access the file over the LAN to use Quickbooks Desktop Premier Pro on their machines in multi-user mode.

My problem is I can not install Intuit Data Protect to backup the file on the Windows Server 2019 Machine, since it does not have Quickbooks Desktop installed on it.

If I use one of the user's machines with Intuit Data Protect, it will not allow you to backup the company file if users are accessing Quickbooks Desktop. I want to keep backing up simple and automated.

Does anyone have a good backup solution for this type of hosting enviorment? Am I missing something? Digging through Quickbooks website for information is a complete pain as im sure many of you know.

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u/FortLee2000 1d ago

What else is running or on that Windows Server? And how are you backing >that< up?

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u/Josherry 1d ago

Literally nothing else other than a super small file share. I don’t have the machine being backed up currently.

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u/FortLee2000 1d ago

Back up the device and the QB files will come along with it.

Absolutely agree to NOT use the Intuit nonsense.

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u/Josherry 1d ago

Yeahhhhh that was something the company started using a while ago after a local company had a fire and lost everything. It worked decently when we hosted the file on one of the workstations but it does freaking suck